ABSTRACT
Once young children can count to ten, and for some children, up to twenty, they can begin to further explore numbers to see patterns and relationships. Children can start to see patterns everywhere with the books Pattern fish and Pattern bugs. Children should practice using academic language for mathematics each day. The vocabulary related to patterns and number relationships include: one more, one less, ten, pattern, add, subtract, next. Family workshops can foster book making and encourage families to create books for their children with repetitive and predictable patterns. In order to practice patterns and number relationships in the community, encourage families to begin collecting small objects. While traveling, search for patterns in the environment and in nature. It could be patterns in fences and flowerbeds, on signs or buildings.
